Would it be possible to get official boost support? It's possible to preprocess the boost headers so they'll compile under the server settings and then dump them all in the zip file along with the actual bot code, but this is a little inefficient. It would save bandwidth if people could just use a preexisting boost installation instead of including the entire boost source code with every single submission.

So has there been any progress on supporting boost? It seems like a pretty simple change, and it's unlikely to break any bots. (Theoretically, someone could have called their own source files boost, causing a potential conflict, but that's easy to check for and has probably never happened anyway.)

I agree. Boost is cutting edge, and can help people have some real fun with there code.

Still there are some like myself that are in a weird situation, where their port installation is messed up and they are stuck on an older version of gcc on os x, who would prefer to simply use boost to solve there problem rather than installing a new version of gcc from source.

I actually created my bot using boost, then had to convert all my code to TR1 [again, old version of gcc].Mind you, I ended up finding a new bug in the process... anyways enough rambling. boost is good, you support it in the last competition, so support it again!